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Preparing for our next tour

I’ve been working today on preparing the material for our “Midwifery Intensives: Keeping birth normal” tour, which starts in just over a week. This will be an exciting program and our three speakers, Maggie Banks, Vicki Chan and Lynne Staff have put together wonderful presentations.

Each will present a paper in the morning, and in the afternoon, facilitate a workshop session where skills and tips can be discussed and worked on.

Vicki Chan will tackle the subject of occipito-posterior labours, Maggie Banks will cover the management of vaginal breech births and Lynne Staff will explore ways to promote and support vaginal birth after a previous caesarean. All are topics that are relevant to the rising caesarean birth rate, and it is the development of confidence and competence of midwives so they can keep birth normal when these conditions are present that is the aim of this program.

The toolkit for working with OP labours looks very exciting. I know the slides that Maggie and Lynne have prepared of normal births with either breech babies or VBAC women are wonderful and inspiring. It is going to be an exhilarating day! Last minute registrations can be taken (but not for the Melbourne event - it is sold out!).

Posted by andrea at April 17, 2004 06:36 PM

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